I will try to reproduce your success on icmp packets. But why tcp trafiic is treated differently, as my original post described? Thanks, -nick Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <3CDC4123.8050707@rogers.com> you wrote: > >>Do you guys think that the current Linux implementation might have >>violated the "SHOULD BE" described above? Sorry for using the word >>"violate"... >> > > if you receive a icmp request to x.x.x.x then linux will answer with a echo > pakcet from x.x.x.x, it will choose the interface where the route points to. > > Greetings > Bernd > - - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html